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Liu S, Wang J, Chen S, Chai J, Wen J, Tian X, Chen N, Xu C. Vagal predominance correlates with mood state changes of winter-over expeditioners during prolonged Antarctic residence. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0298751. [PMID: 38968274 PMCID: PMC11226091 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE Winter-over expeditioners in Antarctica are challenged by various environmental and psycho-social stress factors, which may induce psychophysiological changes. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a crucial role in the adaptation process under stress. However, the relationship between ANS activity and the mood states of expeditioners remains largely unexplored. This study aims to uncover the pattern of ANS adjustment under extreme Antarctic environments and provide new insights into the correlations between ANS activity and mood state changes, which may provide scientific data for medical interventions. METHODS Fourteen expeditioners at Zhongshan Station participated in this study. The study was conducted during four representative periods: pre-Antarctica, Antarctica-1 (pre-winter), Antarctica-2 (winter), and Antarctica-3 (summer). The heart rate variability (HRV) of the expeditioners was continuously measured for 24 hours to evaluate ANS activity. Plasma levels of catecholamines were tested by ELISA. Mood states were assessed by the Profile of Mood States (POMS) scale. RESULTS HRV analysis showed a disturbance of ANS during winter and summer periods. For frequency domain parameters, very low frequency (VLF), low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), and total power (TP) significantly increased during the second half of the mission. Especially, LF/HF ratio decreased during summer, indicating the predominance of vagal tone. Results of the time domain analysis showed increased heart rate variability during the austral winter and summer. Plasma epinephrine (E) significantly increased during residence in Antarctica. Compared with pre-Antarctica, the vigor, depression, and anger scores of the expeditioners decreased significantly during the austral summer. Notably, the depression score showed a moderate positive correlation with LF/HF, while weak negative correlations with other HRV indicators, including TP, VLF, and LF. Anger score showed a moderate positive correlation with LF/HF and weak negative correlations with the average normal-to-normal (NN) interval, and the root mean square of differences between adjacent RR intervals (RMSSD). Plasma E level weakly correlated with the average NN interval. CONCLUSION Prolonged residence in Antarctica increased the ANS activities and shifted the cardiac autonomic modulation towards vagal predominance. The alteration of HRV correlated with mood states and plasma epinephrine levels.
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- Shiying Liu
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Pingxiang Third People’s Hospital, Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- Center of Environmental and Health Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Mather M. The emotion paradox in the aging body and brain. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2024; 1536:13-41. [PMID: 38676452 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2024]
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With age, parasympathetic activity decreases, while sympathetic activity increases. Thus, the typical older adult has low heart rate variability (HRV) and high noradrenaline levels. Younger adults with this physiological profile tend to be unhappy and stressed. Yet, with age, emotional experience tends to improve. Why does older adults' emotional well-being not suffer as their HRV decreases? To address this apparent paradox, I present the autonomic compensation model. In this model, failing organs, the initial phases of Alzheimer's pathology, and other age-related diseases trigger noradrenergic hyperactivity. To compensate, older brains increase autonomic regulatory activity in the pregenual prefrontal cortex (PFC). Age-related declines in nerve conduction reduce the ability of the pregenual PFC to reduce hyperactive noradrenergic activity and increase peripheral HRV. But these pregenual PFC autonomic compensation efforts have a significant impact in the brain, where they bias processing in favor of stimuli that tend to increase parasympathetic activity (e.g., stimuli that increase feelings of safety) and against stimuli that tend to increase sympathetic activity (e.g., threatening stimuli). In summary, the autonomic compensation model posits that age-related chronic sympathetic/noradrenergic hyperactivity stimulates regulatory attempts that have the side effect of enhancing emotional well-being.
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- Mara Mather
- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Department of Psychology, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Gullett N, Zajkowska Z, Walsh A, Harper R, Mondelli V. Heart rate variability (HRV) as a way to understand associations between the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and affective states: A critical review of the literature. Int J Psychophysiol 2023; 192:35-42. [PMID: 37543289 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/07/2023]
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Evidence suggests affective disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are characterised by dysregulated autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. These findings suggest ANS dysregulation may be involved in the pathogenesis of affective disorders. Different affective states are characterised by different ANS activity patterns (i.e., an increase or decrease in sympathetic or parasympathetic activity). To understand how ANS abnormalities are involved in the development of affective disorders, it is important to understand how affective states correlate with ANS activity before their onset. Using heart rate variability (HRV) as a tool to measure ANS activity, this review aimed to look at associations between affective states and HRV in non-clinical populations (i.e., in those without medical and psychiatric disorders). Searches on PubMed and Google Scholar were completed using the following search terms: heart rate variability, autonomic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, affective state, mood and emotion in all possible combinations. All but one of the studies examined (N = 13), demonstrated significant associations between affect and HRV. Findings suggest negative affect, encompassing both diffused longer-term experiences (i.e., mood) as well as more focused short-term experiences (i.e., emotions), may be associated with a reduction in parasympathetic activity as measured through HRV parameters known to quantify parasympathetic activity (e.g., high frequency (HF)-HRV). HRV measures typically linked to reduction in parasympathetic activity appear to be linked to negative affective states in non-clinical populations. However, given the complex and possibly non-linear relationship between HRV and parasympathetic activity, further studies need to clarify specificity of these findings. Future studies should investigate the potential utility of HRV measures as biomarkers for monitoring changes in affective states and for early detection of onset and relapse of depression in patients with affective disorders.
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- Nancy Gullett
- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, UK.
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, UK
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, UK
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- Limbic, Kemp House, 160 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, UK
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK
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Ringwald WR, Kaurin A, DuPont CM, Gianaros PJ, Marsland AL, Muldoon MF, Wright AG, Manuck SB. The personality meta-trait of stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis. J Pers 2023; 91:271-284. [PMID: 35366346 PMCID: PMC10760807 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Several personality traits increase the risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Because many of these traits are correlated, their associations with disease risk could reflect shared variance, rather than unique contributions of each trait. We examined a higher-order personality trait of Stability as related to preclinical atherosclerosis and tested whether any such relationship might be explained by correlated variation in cardiometabolic risk factors. METHOD Among 798 community volunteers, lower-order traits of Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness were modeled as latent variables (from self- and informant ratings) and used to estimate the second-order factor, Stability. Cardiometabolic risk was similarly modeled from indicators of glycemic control, blood pressure, adiposity, and lipids. Carotid artery atherosclerosis was measured as intima-media thickness (IMT) by duplex ultrasonography. RESULT A structural equation model incorporating direct and indirect effects showed lower Stability associated with greater IMT, and this relationship was accounted for by the indirect pathway via cardiometabolic risk. Secondary analyses showed that: (1) Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness were unrelated to IMT independent of Stability; and (2) Stability predicted variation in IMT when estimated from informant-, but not self-rated, traits. CONCLUSION Personality traits may associate with atherosclerotic burden through their shared, rather than unique, variance, as reflected in Stability.
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- Faculty of Health/School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Witten/Herdecke University
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- Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Frameworks of emotional development have tended to focus on how environmental factors shape children's emotion understanding. However, individual experiences of emotion represent a complex interplay between both external environmental inputs and internal somatovisceral signaling. Here, we discuss the importance of afferent signals and coordination between central and peripheral mechanisms in affective response processing. We propose that incorporating somatovisceral theories of emotions into frameworks of emotional development can inform how children understand emotions in themselves and others. We highlight promising directions for future research on emotional development incorporating this perspective, namely afferent cardiac processing and interoception, immune activation, physiological synchrony, and social touch.
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- Kelly E Faig
- Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13502
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- Department of Psychology, the University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Blvd, Madison, WI, 53705
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- Department of Psychology, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
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Fernandes O, Marra da Silva R, Rego Ramos L, Gama TM, Lobo I, Guerra Leal Souza G, Arruda Sanchez T. The impact of a violent community on mental health and the benefits of a sport program for social development. JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2023; 51:51-66. [PMID: 35583853 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of a violent environment on mental health and the impact of a sport for social development (SSD) program on quality of life, mental distress symptoms, and heart rate variability (HRV). HRV and psychometric data were measured from 20 men professional athletes assisted by the SSD and 20 men living in the same violent community. The comparison of groups revealed greater sympathetic parameters of HRV, positive affect, and quality of life in the SSD group. Multiple regression analysis showed that the quality of life in the SSD group was positively predicted by positive affect, while in the control group the quality of life was negatively predicted by their history of traumatic events. Both groups reported high levels of exposure to traumatic events and posttraumatic stress symptoms. However, this study demonstrates the benefits of SSD programs in mental health.
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- Orlando Fernandes
- Laboratório de Neuroimagem e Psicofisiologia, Departamento de Radiologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neuroimagem e Psicofisiologia, Departamento de Radiologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Cardiologia, Instituto do Coração Edson Saad, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neuroimagem e Psicofisiologia, Departamento de Radiologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neuroimagem e Psicofisiologia, Departamento de Radiologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Grupo de Psicobiologia/Laboratório Integrado de Morfologia, Instituto de Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade/NUPEM, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Psicofisiologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neuroimagem e Psicofisiologia, Departamento de Radiologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Cardiologia, Instituto do Coração Edson Saad, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Consumer impulse buying behavior: the role of confidence as moderating effect. Heliyon 2022; 8:e09672. [PMID: 35721683 PMCID: PMC9198328 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Revised: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Many indicators have been proposed that can contribute to impulse buying. However, few studies have examined the role of social comparison in impulse buying, materialism, and negative affect, and even less is known about the underlying processes that may moderate these relationships. The objective of this study was to create a framework that included social comparison, materialism, negative affect, impulse buying, and the moderator variable confidence in Vietnamese e-commerce. A total of 249 completed questionnaires were received from young people who frequently shop online. The study used a structural model and experimentally analyzed the links between materialism, social comparison, impulse buying, and negative affect, and how the moderating variable confidence influenced these interactions. The study finds that social comparison has a significant influence on materialism but has no impact on negative affect. However, negative affect significantly influences impulse buying. Materialism also has an impact on negative affect and impulse buying. Additionally, confidence has a beneficial moderating effect on the relationship between social comparison and impulse buying as well as social comparison and materialism. The limitations and implications of both the scientific and managerial aspects of the study were also addressed. The results will improve marketers’ understanding of impulse buying behaviors by evaluating the connection between materialism and negative affect, which will allow them to plan effective marketing strategies to increase future impulse buying and profits.
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Barros F, Figueiredo C, Brás S, Carvalho JM, Soares SC. Multidimensional assessment of anxiety through the State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA): From dimensionality to response prediction across emotional contexts. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262960. [PMID: 35077490 PMCID: PMC8789173 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The assessment of mal-adaptive anxiety is crucial, considering the associated personal, economic, and societal burden. The State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA) is a self-report instrument developed to provide multidimensional anxiety assessment in four dimensions: trait-cognitive, trait-somatic, state-cognitive and state-somatic. This research aimed to extend STICSA’s psychometric studies through the assessment of its dimensionality, reliability, measurement invariance and nomological validity in the Portuguese population. Additionally, the predictive validity of STICSA-Trait was also evaluated, through the analysis of the relationship between self-reported trait anxiety and both the subjective and the psychophysiological response across distinct emotional situations. Similarly to previous studies, results supported both a four-factor and two separated bi-factor structures. Measurement invariance across sex groups was also supported, and good nomological validity was observed. Moreover, STICSA trait-cognitive dimension was associated with differences in self-reported arousal between groups of high/low anxiety, whereas STICSA trait-somatic dimension was related to differences in both the subjective and psychophysiological response. Together, these results support STICSA as a useful instrument for a broader anxiety assessment, crucial for an informed diagnosis and practice.
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- Filipa Barros
- William James Center for Research (WJCR), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Electronics, Telecommunication and Informatics (DETI), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering (IEETA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Electronics, Telecommunication and Informatics (DETI), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering (IEETA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- William James Center for Research (WJCR), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Hoemann K, Khan Z, Kamona N, Dy J, Barrett LF, Quigley KS. Investigating the relationship between emotional granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in daily life. Psychophysiology 2021; 58:e13818. [PMID: 33768687 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Emotional granularity describes the ability to create emotional experiences that are precise and context-specific. Despite growing evidence of a link between emotional granularity and mental health, the physiological correlates of granularity have been under-investigated. This study explored the relationship between granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in everyday life, with particular reference to the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an estimate of vagal influence on the heart often associated with positive mental and physical health outcomes. Participants completed a physiologically triggered experience-sampling protocol including ambulatory recording of electrocardiogram, impedance cardiogram, movement, and posture. At each prompt, participants generated emotion labels to describe their current experience. In an end-of-day survey, participants elaborated on each prompt by rating the intensity of their experience on a standard set of emotion adjectives. Consistent with our hypotheses, individuals with higher granularity exhibited a larger number of distinct patterns of physiological activity during seated rest, and more situationally precise patterns of activity during emotional events: granularity was positively correlated with the number of clusters of cardiorespiratory physiological activity discovered in seated rest data, as well as with the performance of classifiers trained on event-related changes in physiological activity. Granularity was also positively associated with RSA during seated rest periods, although this relationship did not reach significance in this sample. These findings are consistent with constructionist accounts of emotion that propose concepts as a key mechanism underlying individual differences in emotional experience, physiological regulation, and physical health.
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- Katie Hoemann
- Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.,Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA
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He CJ, Zhu CY, Han B, Hu HZ, Wang SJ, Zhai CL, Hu HL. Association between anxiety and clinical outcomes in Chinese patients with myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Clin Cardiol 2020; 43:659-665. [PMID: 32515510 PMCID: PMC7368297 DOI: 10.1002/clc.23386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease (MINOCA) accounts for approximately 5% - 6% of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. Anxiety symptoms are common in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), and are associated with a poor prognosis. However, the association between anxiety and MINOCA outcomes is less clear. HYPOTHESIS Anxiety will be associated with clinical outcomes in patients with MINOCA. METHODS AND RESULTS Between November 2014 and December 2016, 620 hospitalized patients with MINOCA were recruited from a single center. Within 7 days of coronary angiography, anxiety was assessed using the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality; secondary endpoint was any major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE). After 3 years, 87 deaths and 151 MACE had occurred. Kaplan-Meier curves indicated the unadjusted rates of all-cause mortality (log-rank P = .045) and MACE (log-rank P = .023) were significantly higher in the anxiety group compared with the control group of patients without anxiety. Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that clinically significant anxiety was an independent prognostic factor for all-cause mortality as well as MACE (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.547; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.006-2.380; P = .047; HR = 1.460; 95% CI, 1.049-2.031; P = .025; respectively). CONCLUSIONS Anxiety is significantly and independently associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality and MACE in patients with MINOCA.
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- Chao-Jie He
- Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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- Department of Psychology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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- Department of Nephrology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China
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Krok D, Zarzycka B. Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being in Cardiac Patients: Moderated Mediation by Affect and Meaning-Making. THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2020; 154:411-425. [PMID: 32484755 DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2020.1772702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Prior research suggests a potential moderated mediation effect between self-efficacy and psychological well-being. Based on the Meaning Making Model and the Broaden-and-Build Theory, this study examines the relationship between self-efficacy and psychological well-being in the moderated mediation perspective of affect and meaning-making in coronary heart disease patients. The questionnaires measuring self-efficacy, psychological well-being, affect, and meaning-making were used to collect data from one hundred and fifty six patients (73 women and 83 men) who were suffering from coronary heart disease. The patients had a history of coronary heart disease in the previous .1‒7.9 years and were aged 47‒82. Findings demonstrated that meaning-making mediated the indirect relationship between self-efficacy and psychological well-being. In addition, the moderated mediation effect of positive affect, but not of negative affect was significant. Positive affect moderated the indirect effect between self-efficacy and psychological well-being through meaning-making; the indirect effect was stronger when positive affect was high as opposed to low. The results suggest the interplay of affective and meaning-making processes in the relationship between self-efficacy and well-being.
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Gray JM, Tully EC. Cognitive reappraisal moderates the quadratic association between heart rate variability and negative affectivity. Psychophysiology 2020; 57:e13584. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Jackson M. Gray
- Department of Psychology Georgia State University Atlanta GA USA
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- Department of Psychology Georgia State University Atlanta GA USA
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Barber TA, Ringwald WR, Wright AG, Manuck SB. Borderline personality disorder traits associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk. Personal Disord 2020; 11:151-156. [PMID: 31647268 PMCID: PMC7047517 DOI: 10.1037/per0000373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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There is growing interest in relationships between borderline personality disorder (BPD) pathology and physical health outcomes. Diagnostic BPD and BPD-related traits, for instance, have been shown to associate with self-reported cardiovascular disease and various cardiometabolic risk factors. However, potential confounding of these associations by comorbid depression, which itself contributes to risk for heart disease, remains unresolved, and previous research is limited by nearly uniform reliance on self-reported health status. In the present study, we examine the association of BPD traits and contemporaneously assessed depressive mood with instrumented measures of cardiometabolic risk in a midlife community sample (N = 1,295). BPD pathology was measured using dimensional, multi-informant trait measures; depressive symptomology was self-reported; and cardiometabolic risk was indexed via multiple indicators of insulin resistance, adiposity, dyslipidemia, and blood pressure. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the effects of BPD traits and depressive symptoms on aggregated cardiometabolic risk, adjusting for their shared variance. Results showed both BPD features and depressive symptomatology related to the extent of cardiometabolic risk; when examined simultaneously, only BPD associated independently with risk indicators. In further supporting a link between BPD pathology and cardiovascular disease risk, these findings warrant future work to elucidate intervening behavioral and biological mechanisms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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McIntyre KM, Puterman E, Scodes JM, Choo TH, Choi CJ, Pavlicova M, Sloan RP. The effects of aerobic training on subclinical negative affect: A randomized controlled trial. Health Psychol 2020; 39:255-264. [PMID: 31916828 DOI: 10.1037/hea0000836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The antidepressant and anxiolytic effects of aerobic exercise are well known, but less is known about its effects on subclinical levels of trait negative affect in healthy but sedentary adults. In the present study, we test the effects of a 3-month randomized controlled trial of aerobic exercise training in young to midlife adults on trait measures of depression, anxiety, hostility, and anger. METHOD One-hundred and 19 men (n = 56) and women (n = 63) aged 20-45 were randomized to 1 of 2 conditions: (a) 12 weeks of aerobic exercise after which they were asked to halt exercising and decondition for 4 weeks, or (b) a 16-week waitlist control group. Assessments of depression, anxiety, hostility and anger were completed at study entry, Week 12 and Week 16. RESULTS At study entry, participants scored low on measures of depression, anxiety, hostility and anger. Analyses among the intent-to-treat and per protocol samples found significant treatment effects of aerobic training for hostility and depression, but not for anxiety and anger. Within-group analyses demonstrated that depression and hostility scores decreased in the exercise group over the course of the intervention, while remaining stable in the control group. These effects persisted for the exercise group at nonsignificant levels after 4 weeks of deconditioning. CONCLUSIONS Aerobic exercise training has significant psychological effects even in sedentary yet euthymic adults, adding experimental data on the known benefits of exercise in this population. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Kathleen M McIntyre
- Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
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- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia
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- Mental Health Data Science, New York State Psychiatric Institute
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- Mental Health Data Science, New York State Psychiatric Institute
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- Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
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Javanmardi M, Huang D, Dwivedi P, Khanna S, Brunisholz K, Whitaker R, Nguyen Q, Tasdizen T. Analyzing Associations Between Chronic Disease Prevalence and Neighborhood Quality Through Google Street View Images. IEEE ACCESS : PRACTICAL INNOVATIONS, OPEN SOLUTIONS 2019; 8:6407-6416. [PMID: 33777591 PMCID: PMC7996469 DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2960010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Deep learning and, specifically, convoltional neural networks (CNN) represent a class of powerful models that facilitate the understanding of many problems in computer vision. When combined with a reasonable amount of data, CNNs can outperform traditional models for many tasks, including image classification. In this work, we utilize these powerful tools with imagery data collected through Google Street View images to perform virtual audits of neighborhood characteristics. We further investigate different architectures for chronic disease prevalence regression through networks that are applied to sets of images rather than single images. We show quantitative results and demonstrate that our proposed architectures outperform the traditional regression approaches.
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- Mehran Javanmardi
- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- Master's in Telecommunications Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- Healthcare Delivery Institute, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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Hu MX, Milaneschi Y, Lamers F, Nolte IM, Snieder H, Dolan CV, Penninx BWJH, de Geus EJC. The association of depression and anxiety with cardiac autonomic activity: The role of confounding effects of antidepressants. Depress Anxiety 2019; 36:1163-1172. [PMID: 31622521 PMCID: PMC6916630 DOI: 10.1002/da.22966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Revised: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety may unfavorably impact on cardiac autonomic dysregulation. However, it is unclear whether this relationship results from a causal effect or may be attributable to confounding factors. We tested the relationship between depression and anxiety with heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) across a 9-year follow-up (FU) period and investigated possible confounding by antidepressant use and genetic pleiotropy. METHODS Data (no. of observations = 6,994, 65% female) were obtained from the longitudinal Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety, with repeated waves of data collection of HR, HRV, depression, anxiety, and antidepressant use. Summary statistics from meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies were used to derive polygenic risk scores of depression, HR, and HRV. RESULTS Across the 9-year FU, generalized estimating equations analyses showed that the relationship between cardiac autonomic dysregulation and depression/anxiety rendered nonsignificant after adjusting for antidepressant use. A robust association was found between antidepressant use (especially tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin, and noradrenalin reuptake inhibitors) and unfavorable cardiac autonomic activity across all waves. However, no evidence was found for a genetic correlation of depression with HR and HRV, indicating that confounding by genetic pleiotropy is minimal. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that the association between depression/anxiety and cardiac autonomic dysregulation does not result from a causal pathway or genetic pleiotropy, and these traits might therefore not be inevitably linked. Previously reported associations were likely confounded by the use of certain classes of antidepressants.
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- Mandy X. Hu
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMCVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMCVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMCVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Medical Center GroningenUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Medical Center GroningenUniversity of GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Biological PsychologyVU UniversityAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMCVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Biological PsychologyVU UniversityAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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OBJECTIVE Several researchers have argued that racism-related stressors play an important role in adverse cardiovascular outcomes among African American women. However, studies have primarily focused on experiences of racism; thus, the role of expectations of racism is insufficiently understood. The current proof-of-concept study was designed to examine associations among expectations of racism, self-reported experiences of racism, and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a marker of cardiovascular risk, in African American women. METHODS Participants were 52 healthy African American women, aged 30 to 50 years (M (SD) = 40.8 (4.3)). Expectations of racism were assessed with a modified version of the Race-Based Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, experiences of racism were assessed with the Schedule of Racist Events, and carotid IMT was measured using B-mode ultrasound. RESULTS In linear regression analyses adjusted for age, expectations of racism were associated with higher levels of carotid IMT (b = .04, SE = .014, p = .013), after adjusting for experiences of racism. Findings remained significant after additional adjustments for cardiovascular risk factors (b = .03, SE = .014, p = .032). Associations were not confounded by additional stressors, hostility, or negative affect (depressive symptoms). CONCLUSIONS Independent of actual reports of racism, "expectations" of racism may be associated with increased cardiovascular risk in African American women. In addition, although experiences of discrimination were associated with depressive symptoms, expectations of racism were not, suggesting that other negative emotions likely play a role. Future studies are needed to replicate these results in larger samples and to explore the psychological and physiological pathways through which expectations of racism might affect cardiovascular disease risk across a range of populations.
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Thayer JF, Koenig J. Resting Cerebral Blood Flow and Ethnic Differences in Heart Rate Variability: Links to Self-Reports of Affect and Affect Regulation. Neuroimage 2019; 202:116154. [PMID: 31491521 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Reduced high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) is associated with a greater risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although African Americans (AA) are at greater risk for CVD, they show greater HF-HRV compared to European Americans (EA). Previous studies suggest that differences in the association between regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) and HF-HRV in AA and EA may explain this surprising pattern of findings, termed the Cardiovascular Conundrum. Here we pooled data from a total of n = 452 EA and n = 102 AA, investigating differences in the association between CBF in 8 regions of interest (ROI), including the cingulate (anterior, mid, posterior), insula (anterior, posterior), and amygdala (basolateral, centromedial, superfical), with HF-HRV, mean heart rate (HR) and their Coefficient of Variation (CoV). Bayesian statistics illustrate that CBF - in particular in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) - is positively associated with HF-HRV and CoV in EA, but negatively associated in AA. Exploring the association between HF-HRV and CBF with self-reports of affect and affect regulation showed some differences as a function of ethnicity. The association between greater habitual use of reappraisal only showed a positive correlation with HF-HRV in AA. Similar, greater suppression or non-expression of angry emotions was associated with greater HF-HRV whereas greater outward direction of anger was associated with lower HF-HRV in AA only. Given the importance of the ACC in emotion and emotion regulation, we suggest that increased HF-HRV may serve a compensatory role in AA. Implications from these findings and suggestions for future studies are discussed.
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- Julian F Thayer
- Department of Psychological Science, The University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Section for Experimental Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Wagner JA, Feinn R, Lampert R, Bermúdez-Millán A, Pérez-Escamilla R. Changes in negative affect and changes in heart rate variability among low-income latinos with type 2 diabetes in a randomized, controlled stress management trial. J Psychosom Res 2019; 124:109774. [PMID: 31443815 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Revised: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Structural equation modeling examined the relationship between change in negative affect (NA) and change in heart rate variability (HRV) among 121 Latinos with type 2 diabetes. METHODS This study leveraged data from the Community Health Workers Assisting Latinos Manage Stress and Diabetes (CALMSD) study which compared diabetes education vs diabetes education plus stress management. Participants completed surveys of NA at baseline and again 8-10 weeks later. They also wore 7‑lead, 3-channel ambulatory ECG monitors for 24 h at both time points. The latent variable NA was modeled by observed scores on symptoms of depression, anxiety, diabetes distress, and wellbeing (reversed). The latent variable HRV was modeled by observed scores in the time domain (the standard deviation of the R-R interval [SDNN] and the root mean square of the successive differences [RMSSD]) and in the frequency domain, i.e., log-transformed ultra-low frequency, very-low frequency, low frequency, and high frequency. RESULTS At baseline, there were strong, negative cross-sectional associations between NA and HRV. Baseline NA predicted change in HRV, whereas baseline HRV did not predict change in NA. Controlling for fasting glucose and treatment assignment did not meaningfully alter the findings. Stress management improved NA but not HRV. At followup, a greater reduction (improvement) in NA was associated with a larger increase (improvement) in HRV, with a small-to-medium negative association that approached statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS Findings indicate a longitudinal relationship between NA and HRV, and suggest that improvement in one may be associated with improvement in the other.
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- Julie A Wagner
- University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine, United States of America.
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- Quinnipiac University School of Medicine, United States of America
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- Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America
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Määttänen I, Martikainen J, Henttonen P, Väliaho J, Thibault M, Palomäki J. Understanding depressive symptoms through psychological traits and physiological stress reactivity. COGENT PSYCHOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2019.1575654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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- Psychology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Psychology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Science, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Benham G, Charak R. Stress and sleep remain significant predictors of health after controlling for negative affect. Stress Health 2019; 35:59-68. [PMID: 30289608 DOI: 10.1002/smi.2840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Prior research has shown that the predictive power of a stress-health model can be improved by the addition of sleep as a predictor variable. However, negative affect (NA) may act as a confounding variable in stress-health relationships: a source of bias that potentially inflates the observed relationship between stress and health. The current study examines whether stress and sleep remain significant predictors of health after controlling for trait NA. An online survey containing well-established measures of stress, sleep, health, and NA was completed by 460 undergraduates. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that stress and sleep remained significant predictors of self-reported health after controlling for the effects of NA. Our findings support the notion that stress-health models can be improved by the integration of sleep as an additional predictor variable and demonstrate that the stress/sleep-health relationships are not fully explained by dispositional NA. From a theoretical perspective, the inclusion of NA measures allows researchers to tease apart the unique contributions of predictor variables. This knowledge can subsequently be put to the test with greater confidence in the design of interventions that seek to improve health through stress reduction and improved sleep.
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- Grant Benham
- Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA
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Hu MX, Penninx BW, de Geus EJ, Lamers F, Kuan DCH, Wright AG, Marsland AL, Muldoon MF, Manuck SB, Gianaros PJ. Associations of immunometabolic risk factors with symptoms of depression and anxiety: The role of cardiac vagal activity. Brain Behav Immun 2018; 73:493-503. [PMID: 29920329 PMCID: PMC7066576 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2018.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 05/24/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES This study examined 1) the cross-sectional relationships between symptoms of depression/anxiety and immunometabolic risk factors, and 2) whether these relationships might be explained in part by cardiac vagal activity. METHODS Data were drawn from the Adult Health and Behavior registries (n = 1785), comprised of community dwelling adults (52.8% women, aged 30-54). Depressive symptoms were measured with the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), and anxious symptoms with the Trait Anxiety scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T). Immunometabolic risk factors included fasting levels of triglycerides, high-density lipoproteins, glucose, and insulin, as well as blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index, C-reactive protein, and interleukin-6. Measures of cardiac autonomic activity were high- and low-frequency indicators of heart rate variability (HRV), standard deviation of normal-to-normal R-R intervals, and the mean of absolute and successive differences in R-R intervals. RESULTS Higher BDI-II scores, in contrast to CES-D and STAI-T scores, were associated with increased immunometabolic risk and decreased HRV, especially HRV likely reflecting cardiac vagal activity. Decreased HRV was also associated with increased immunometabolic risk. Structural equation models indicated that BDI-II scores may relate to immunometabolic risk via cardiac vagal activity (indirect effect: β = .012, p = .046) or to vagal activity via immunometabolic risk (indirect effect: β = -.015, p = .021). CONCLUSIONS Depressive symptoms, as measured by the BDI-II, but not anxious symptoms, were related to elevated levels of immunometabolic risk factors and low cardiac vagal activity. The latter may exhibit bidirectional influences on one another in a meditational framework. Future longitudinal, intervention, an nonhuman animal work is needed to elucidate the precise and mechanistic pathways linking depressive symptoms to immune, metabolic, and autonomic parameters of physiology that predispose to cardiovascular disease risk.
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- Mandy X. Hu
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,Corresponding author at: Oldenaller 1, 1081 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (M.X. Hu)
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- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Wolniewicz CA, Tiamiyu MF, Weeks JW, Elhai JD. Problematic smartphone use and relations with negative affect, fear of missing out, and fear of negative and positive evaluation. Psychiatry Res 2018; 262:618-623. [PMID: 28982630 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.09.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Revised: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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For many individuals, excessive smartphone use interferes with everyday life. In the present study, we recruited a non-clinical sample of 296 participants for a cross-sectional survey of problematic smartphone use, social and non-social smartphone use, and psychopathology-related constructs including negative affect, fear of negative and positive evaluation, and fear of missing out (FoMO). Results demonstrated that FoMO was most strongly related to both problematic smartphone use and social smartphone use relative to negative affect and fears of negative and positive evaluation, and these relations held when controlling for age and gender. Furthermore, FoMO (cross-sectionally) mediated relations between both fear of negative and positive evaluation with both problematic and social smartphone use. Theoretical implications are considered with regard to developing problematic smartphone use.
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- Department of Psychology, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA; Laboratory for Traumatic Stress Studies, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. http://www.jon-elhai.com
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Spatola CAM, Cappella EAM, Goodwin CL, Castelnuovo G, Cattivelli R, Rapelli G, Malfatto G, Facchini M, Mollica C, Molinari E. Cross-Lagged Relations Between Exercise Capacity and Psychological Distress During Cardiac Rehabilitation. Ann Behav Med 2018; 52:963-972. [DOI: 10.1093/abm/kax069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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- Chiara A M Spatola
- Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Cardiology Division, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
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- Cardiology Division, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
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- Cardiology Division, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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Kara N, Yao AC, Newton J, Deary V, O'Hara J, Wilson JA. General illness and psychological factors in patients with chronic nasal symptoms. Clin Otolaryngol 2017; 43:609-616. [PMID: 29150985 DOI: 10.1111/coa.13032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Only a minority of patients referred to specialists with sinonasal symptoms have clear evidence of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). This study aims to estimate the prevalence of and associations between (i) general illness factors (fatigue, autonomic dysfunction) and (ii) psychological factors (anxiety, depression, somatisation, personality traits) in patients presenting with sinonasal symptoms. DESIGN The following validated questionnaires were administered to patients: the Sino-Nasal Outcome Test-22 (SNOT-22) identifying symptom burden, Composite Autonomic Symptom Score-31 (COMPASS-31) measuring autonomic function, Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) addressing somatisation symptoms, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the International Personality Item Pool-50 (IPIP-50). Comparisons were made with normative and general population data, and relationships were analysed using nonparametric correlation. SETTING Secondary care ENT outpatients. PARTICIPANTS Adults referred with chronic sinonasal symptoms. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES SNOT-22, COMPASS-31, Chalder, PHQ-15, HADS, and IPIP-50 questionnaire scores. RESULTS Sixty-one patients were included. There was a high prevalence of all general and psychological factors assessed compared with controls. Total SNOT-22 scores showed significant correlation with Chalder fatigue scores, total autonomic dysfunction score, anxiety, depression, somatisation tendencies and the emotionally unstable personality trait. Emotional instability and psychological dysfunction correlated significantly with sleep and psychological subscales of SNOT-22 but not the rhinological or ear/facial subscales. CONCLUSION Patients with sinonasal symptoms demonstrate high prevalence and complex associations of general illness factors, psychological distress and certain personality traits. The SNOT-22 is a valuable tool, but its utility is limited by correlations with these confounding factors (eg psychological factors) that may exaggerate the total score. The use of the SNOT-22 component subscales is likely to provide more clinically meaningful and discriminant information.
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- N Kara
- ENT Department, County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Darlington, UK
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- ENT Department, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport, UK
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Psychology Department, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- ENT Department, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- ENT Department, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Nelson BW, Byrne ML, Simmons JG, Whittle S, Schwartz OS, O'Brien‐Simpson NM, Walsh KA, Reynolds EC, Allen NB. Adolescent temperament dimensions as stable prospective risk and protective factors for salivary C‐reactive protein. Br J Health Psychol 2017; 23:186-207. [DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Department of Psychiatry The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health Victoria Australia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Department of Psychiatry The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health Victoria Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Department of Psychiatry The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health Victoria Australia
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- Melbourne Dental School, Oral Health CRC The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- Melbourne Dental School, Oral Health CRC The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- Department of Psychology University of Oregon Eugene Oregon USA
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Orygen Research Centre Centre for Youth Mental Health University of Melbourne Victoria Australia
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Effects of Patients' Affect on Adverse Procedural Events during Image-Guided Interventions. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2017; 28:1732-1738. [PMID: 28867310 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2017.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Revised: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To assess how a patient's affect on presentation relates to the likelihood of adverse events during their subsequent interventional image-guided procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS A secondary analysis was performed of an existing dataset from a clinical trial with 230 patients who underwent percutaneous peripheral vascular and renal interventions and who had completed the positive affect (PA) negative affect (NA) schedule (PANAS) before their procedures. Summary PANAS scores were split over the median and used to classify the participants into those with high vs low PA and high vs low NA. Associations between affect and the absence or presence of adverse medical events were examined by two-sided Fisher exact tests. RESULTS Patients with high baseline NA were significantly more likely to have adverse events during their procedures than those with low baseline NA (18% vs 8%; P = .030). High baseline PA was not associated with a significantly higher frequency of subsequent adverse events compared with low PA (15% vs 9%; P = .23). Patients with high NA requested and received significantly more sedative and opioid agents than those with low NA (2.0 vs 1.0 units requested [P = .0009]; 3.0 vs 1.0 units received [P = .0004]). PA levels did not affect medication use. CONCLUSIONS High NA, but not PA, was associated with an increased likelihood of adverse events. Improving patients' NA before procedures seems a more suitable target than attempting to boost PA to improve the procedural experience.
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Understanding comorbidity among internalizing problems: Integrating latent structural models of psychopathology and risk mechanisms. Dev Psychopathol 2017; 28:987-1012. [PMID: 27739389 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579416000663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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It is well known that comorbidity is the rule, not the exception, for categorically defined psychiatric disorders, and this is also the case for internalizing disorders of depression and anxiety. This theoretical review paper addresses the ubiquity of comorbidity among internalizing disorders. Our central thesis is that progress in understanding this co-occurrence can be made by employing latent dimensional structural models that organize psychopathology as well as vulnerabilities and risk mechanisms and by connecting the multiple levels of risk and psychopathology outcomes together. Different vulnerabilities and risk mechanisms are hypothesized to predict different levels of the structural model of psychopathology. We review the present state of knowledge based on concurrent and developmental sequential comorbidity patterns among common discrete psychiatric disorders in youth, and then we advocate for the use of more recent bifactor dimensional models of psychopathology (e.g., p factor; Caspi et al., 2014) that can help to explain the co-occurrence among internalizing symptoms. In support of this relatively novel conceptual perspective, we review six exemplar vulnerabilities and risk mechanisms, including executive function, information processing biases, cognitive vulnerabilities, positive and negative affectivity aspects of temperament, and autonomic dysregulation, along with the developmental occurrence of stressors in different domains, to show how these vulnerabilities can predict the general latent psychopathology factor, a unique latent internalizing dimension, as well as specific symptom syndrome manifestations.
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Niérat MC, Laviolette L, Hudson A, Similowski T, Sévoz-Couche C. Experimental dyspnea as a stressor: differential cardiovegetative responses to inspiratory threshold loading in healthy men and women. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2017; 123:205-212. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00078.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Revised: 04/18/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Dyspnea is associated with an emotional reaction that involves limbic activation. The inspiratory threshold load (ITL) is known to elicit a dyspneic response in healthy subjects. Laboratory-induced stress conditions have been shown to elicit sex-related differences in cardiovascular responses. The aim of this study was to evaluate how healthy men ( n = 8) and women ( n = 9) react and adapt to 5-min periods of ITL at three levels (low, medium, and high) in terms of heart rate (HR), temporal (RMSSD) and spectral (LF, HF, LF/HF ratio) HRV indexes, and rating of breathing discomfort. HR increased with low, medium, and high ITL in men, whereas it increased only with high ITL in women. LF/HF ratio increased at low ITL in both men and women. Modifications appear to depend essentially on increased LF in men and on reduced HF in women. In addition, HRV modifications differ between men and women, following the order of presentation of ITLs. Our results show a continuous and sustained stress in men (increased HR, LF, and LF/HF ratio across ITL presentation) and a stress adaptation in women. Subjective responses of breathing discomfort were not correlated with sympatho-vagal balance modifications for a subgroup of subjects ( n = 10). Breathing against the ITL induced autonomic modifications that are different between men and women, i.e., driven by sympathetic mediated responses in men, whereas women showed a greater parasympathetic modulation of cardiovascular activity. These results highlight the role of the mechanical inspiratory load in the heart rate variability seen in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Breathing against the ITL induced autonomic modifications driven by sympathetic mediated responses in men, whereas women showed a greater parasympathetic modulation of cardiovascular activity, even for low load. A stress circuit could be at the origin of autonomic modifications induced by ITL. Our results would underline the role of the mechanic inspiratory load in the abnormalities in heart rate variability seen in COPD patients.
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- Marie-Cécile Niérat
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Universite Paris 06, INSERM, UMRS1158 “Neurophysiologie respiratoire expérimentale et clinique”, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Universite Paris 06, INSERM, UMRS1158 “Neurophysiologie respiratoire expérimentale et clinique”, Paris, France
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, Canada; and
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Universite Paris 06, INSERM, UMRS1158 “Neurophysiologie respiratoire expérimentale et clinique”, Paris, France
- Neuroscience Research Australia and University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Universite Paris 06, INSERM, UMRS1158 “Neurophysiologie respiratoire expérimentale et clinique”, Paris, France
- AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation Médicale (“Département R3S”), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Universite Paris 06, INSERM, UMRS1158 “Neurophysiologie respiratoire expérimentale et clinique”, Paris, France
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May R, McBerty V, Zaky A, Gianotti M. Vigorous physical activity predicts higher heart rate variability among younger adults. J Physiol Anthropol 2017; 36:24. [PMID: 28615045 PMCID: PMC5471673 DOI: 10.1186/s40101-017-0140-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Baseline heart rate variability (HRV) is linked to prospective cardiovascular health. We tested intensity and duration of weekly physical activity as predictors of heart rate variability in young adults. Time and frequency domain indices of HRV were calculated based on 5-min resting electrocardiograms collected from 82 undergraduate students. Hours per week of both moderate and vigorous activity were estimated using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. In regression analyses, hours of vigorous physical activity, but not moderate activity, significantly predicted greater time domain and frequency domain indices of heart rate variability. Adjusted for weekly frequency, greater daily duration of vigorous activity failed to predict HRV indices. CONCLUSIONS Future studies should test direct measurements of vigorous activity patterns as predictors of autonomic function in young adulthood.
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- Richard May
- Biology Program, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR, 97520, USA.
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- Biology Program, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR, 97520, USA
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- Biology Program, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR, 97520, USA
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- Biology Program, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR, 97520, USA
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Lu WC, Tzeng NS, Kao YC, Yeh CB, Kuo TBJ, Chang CC, Chang HA. Correlation between health-related quality of life in the physical domain and heart rate variability in asymptomatic adults. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2016; 14:149. [PMID: 27765048 PMCID: PMC5073888 DOI: 10.1186/s12955-016-0555-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Background Reduced health-related quality of life in the physical domain (HRQOLphysical) has been reported to increase risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, the mechanism underlying this phenomenon is still unclear. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) that connects the body and mind is a biologically plausible candidate to investigate this mechanism. The aim of our study is to examine whether the HRQOLphysical independently contributes to heart rate variability (HRV), which reflects ANS activity. Methods We recruited 329 physically and mentally healthy adults. All participants completed Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and World Health Organization Questionnaire on Quality of Life: Short Form-Taiwanese version (WHOQOL-BREF). They were divided into groups of individuals having high or low scores of HRQOLphysical as discriminated by the quartile value of WHOQOL-BREF. We obtained the time and frequency-domain indices of HRV, namely variance (total HRV), the low-frequency power (LF; 0.05–0.15 Hz), which may reflect baroreflex function, the high-frequency power (HF; 0.15–0.40 Hz), which reflects cardiac parasympathetic activity, and the LF/HF ratio. Results There was an independent contribution of HRQOLphysical to explaining the variance in HRV after excluding potential confounding factors (gender, age, physical activity, alcohol use, depression and anxiety). Compared with the participants with high levels of HRQOLphysical, those with low levels of HRQOLphysical displayed significant reductions in variance and LF. Conclusions This study highlights the independent role of low HRQOLphysical in contributing to the reduced HRV in healthy adults and points to a potential underlying mechanism for HRQOLphysical to confer increased risks for CVD.
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- Wan-Chun Lu
- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, Nei-Hu District, 114, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, Nei-Hu District, 114, Taipei, Taiwan.,Student Counseling Center, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital Songshan Branch, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, Nei-Hu District, 114, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, Nei-Hu District, 114, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital National Defense Medical Center, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, Nei-Hu District, 114, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Pajer KA, Edwards MC, Lourie AE, Fields S, Kalman S. Depressive symptoms, hostility, and hopelessness in inner-city adolescent health clinic patients: factor structure and demographic correlates. Int J Adolesc Med Health 2016; 30:/j/ijamh.ahead-of-print/ijamh-2016-0009/ijamh-2016-0009.xml. [PMID: 27508952 DOI: 10.1515/ijamh-2016-0009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Depression, hostility, and hopelessness are risk factors for adult cardiovascular disease (CVD). People living in inner-city environments are particularly vulnerable. These associations may begin in adolescence, but research in this area is hampered by inadequate knowledge about how these negative psychological factors are related in teens and how they are affected by demographic characteristics. We hypothesized that depression, hostility, and hopelessness are one construct, and that this construct would be associated with race and gender in attendees at an inner-city adolescent health clinic. METHODS Two hundred and forty-six 15-18-year-old patients filled out instruments measuring depressive symptoms, hostility, and hopelessness. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine whether the negative psychological factors comprised a single construct or three separate ones. General linear modeling (GLM) was used to test the associations between demographic characteristics and the results of the factor analysis. RESULTS Depressive symptoms, hostility, and hopelessness were best characterized as three separate constructs, not one (root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)=0.041, 90% confidence interval (CI)=(0.035, 0.047), comparative fit index (CFI)=0.98). There were no significant relationships between demographic variables and depressive symptoms or hostility. Six percent of the variance in hopelessness scores was accounted for by gender, race, and the interaction between the two (F=3.76; p=0.006), with White males, reporting the highest levels of hopelessness. CONCLUSION In an urban adolescent health clinic population, depressive symptoms, hostility, and hopelessness were best understood as three separate constructs. Hopelessness was significantly higher in White males. Implications for future clinical research on negative psychological factors in teens are discussed.
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- Kathleen A Pajer
- Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, 401 Smyth Rd., Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1 Canada, Phone: +1-613-737-7600 Ext. 2723, Fax: +1-613-737-2257
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- Denison University, Department of Psychology, Granville, OH, USA
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- Texas A&M, Department of Psychology, College Station, TX, USA
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- Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Bethany, OK, USA
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Moncrieft AE, Llabre MM, Gallo LC, Cai J, Gonzalez F, Gonzalez P, Ostrovsky NW, Schneiderman N, Penedo FJ. Hostility and quality of life among Hispanics/Latinos in the HCHS/SOL Sociocultural Ancillary Study. Psychol Health 2016; 31:1342-58. [PMID: 27456582 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1208820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine if hostility is associated with physical and mental health-related quality of life (QoL) in US. Hispanics/Latinos after accounting for depression and anxiety. METHODS Analyses included 5313 adults (62% women, 18-75 years) who completed the ancillary sociocultural assessment of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Participants completed the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, Spielberger Trait Anxiety Scale, Spielberger Trait Anger Scale, Cook-Medley Hostility cynicism subscale and Short Form Health Survey. In a structural regression model, associations of hostility with mental and physical QoL were examined. RESULTS In a model adjusting for age, sex, disease burden, income, education and years in the US., hostility was related to worse mental QoL, and was marginally associated with worse physical QoL. However, when adjusting for the influence of depression and anxiety, greater hostility was associated with better mental QoL, and was not associated with physical QoL. CONCLUSIONS Results indicate observed associations between hostility and QoL are confounded by symptoms of anxiety and depression, and suggest hostility is independently associated with better mental QoL in this population. Findings also highlight the importance of differentiating shared and unique associations of specific emotions with health outcomes.
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- Ashley E Moncrieft
- a Department of Psychology , University of Miami , Coral Gables , FL , USA
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- a Department of Psychology , University of Miami , Coral Gables , FL , USA
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- b Department of Psychology , San Diego State University , San Diego , CA , USA
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- c Department of Biostatistics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , NC , USA
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- c Department of Biostatistics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , NC , USA
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- b Department of Psychology , San Diego State University , San Diego , CA , USA
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- d Department of Epidemiology and Population Health , Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Bronx , NY , USA
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- a Department of Psychology , University of Miami , Coral Gables , FL , USA
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- e Department of Medical Social Sciences , Northwestern University , Chicago , IL , USA
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Kao LC, Liu YW, Tzeng NS, Kuo TBJ, Huang SY, Chang CC, Chang HA. Linking an Anxiety-Related Personality Trait to Cardiac Autonomic Regulation in Well-Defined Healthy Adults: Harm Avoidance and Resting Heart Rate Variability. Psychiatry Investig 2016; 13:397-405. [PMID: 27482240 PMCID: PMC4965649 DOI: 10.4306/pi.2016.13.4.397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2015] [Revised: 09/19/2015] [Accepted: 10/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Anxiety trait, anxiety and depression states have all been reported to increase risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD), possibly through altering cardiac autonomic regulation. Our aim was to investigate whether the relationship between harm avoidance (HA, an anxiety-related personality trait) and cardiac autonomic regulation is independent of anxiety and depression states in healthy adults. METHODS We recruited 535 physically and mentally healthy volunteers. Participants completed the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Tri-dimensional Personality Questionnaire. Participants were divided into high or low HA groups as discriminated by the quartile value. Cardiac autonomic function was evaluated by measuring heart rate variability (HRV). We obtained the time and frequency-domain indices of HRV including variance (total HRV), the low-frequency power (LF; 0.05-0.15 Hz), which may reflect baroreflex function, the high-frequency power (HF; 0.15-0.40 Hz), which reflects cardiac parasympathetic activity, as well as the LF/HF ratio. RESULTS The BDI and HA scores showed associations with HRV parameters. After adjustment for the BDI scores and other control variables, HA is still associated with reduced variance, LF and HF power. Compared with the participants with low HA, those with high HA displayed significant reductions in variance, LF and HF power and a significant increase in their LF/HF ratio. CONCLUSION This study highlights the independent role of HA in contributing to decreased autonomic cardiac regulation in healthy adults and provides a potential underlying mechanism for anxiety trait to confer increased risk for CVD.
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- Lien-Cheng Kao
- Department of Psychiatry, Beitou Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- Student Counseling Center, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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Linking Daily Stress Processes and Laboratory-Based Heart Rate Variability in a National Sample of Midlife and Older Adults. Psychosom Med 2016; 78:573-82. [PMID: 26867082 PMCID: PMC4891238 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000000306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study evaluates the associations between people's trait-like patterns of stress in daily life (stressor frequency, perceived stressor severity, affective reactivity to stressors, and negative affect) and laboratory-assessed heart rate variability (HRV). METHODS Data were collected from 909 participants aged 35 to 85 years in the Midlife in the United States Study. Participants reported negative affect and minor stressful events during telephone interviews on 8 consecutive evenings. On a separate occasion, HRV was measured from electrocardiograph recordings taken at rest during a laboratory-based psychophysiology protocol. Regression models were used to evaluate the associations between daily stress processes and three log-transformed HRV indices: standard deviation of R-R intervals (SDRR), root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD), and high-frequency power (high-frequency HRV [HF-HRV]). Analyses were adjusted for demographics, body mass index, comorbid conditions, medications, physical activity, and smoking. RESULTS Stressor frequency was unrelated to HRV (r values ranging from -0.04 to -0.01, p values >.20). However, people with greater perceived stressor severity had lower resting SDRR (fully adjusted B [standard error {SE}] = -0.05 [0.02]), RMSSD (-0.08 [0.03]), and HF-HRV (-0.16 [0.07]). Individuals with more pronounced affective reactivity to stressors also had lower levels of all three HRV indices (SDRR: B [SE] = -0.28 [0.14]; RMSSD: -0.44 [0.19]; HF-HRV: -0.96 [0.37]). Furthermore, aggregated daily negative affect was linked to reduced RMSSD (B [SE] = -0.16 [0.08]) and HF-HRV (-0.35 [0.15]). CONCLUSIONS In a national sample, individual differences in daily negative affect and responses to daily stressors were more strongly related to cardiovascular autonomic regulation than the frequency of such stressors.
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Genetic influences on heart rate variability. Int J Psychophysiol 2016; 115:65-73. [PMID: 27114045 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is the variation of cardiac inter-beat intervals over time resulting largely from the interplay between the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. Individual differences in HRV are associated with emotion regulation, personality, psychopathology, cardiovascular health, and mortality. Previous studies have shown significant heritability of HRV measures. Here we extend genetic research on HRV by investigating sex differences in genetic underpinnings of HRV, the degree of genetic overlap among different measurement domains of HRV, and phenotypic and genetic relationships between HRV and the resting heart rate (HR). We performed electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings in a large population-representative sample of young adult twins (n=1060 individuals) and computed HRV measures from three domains: time, frequency, and nonlinear dynamics. Genetic and environmental influences on HRV measures were estimated using linear structural equation modeling of twin data. The results showed that variability of HRV and HR measures can be accounted for by additive genetic and non-shared environmental influences (AE model), with no evidence for significant shared environmental effects. Heritability estimates ranged from 47 to 64%, with little difference across HRV measurement domains. Genetic influences did not differ between genders for most variables except the square root of the mean squared differences between successive R-R intervals (RMSSD, higher heritability in males) and the ratio of low to high frequency power (LF/HF, distinct genetic factors operating in males and females). The results indicate high phenotypic and especially genetic correlations between HRV measures from different domains, suggesting that >90% of genetic influences are shared across measures. Finally, about 40% of genetic variance in HRV was shared with HR. In conclusion, both HR and HRV measures are highly heritable traits in the general population of young adults, with high degree of genetic overlap across different measurement domains.
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Exploring the autonomic correlates of personality. Auton Neurosci 2015; 193:127-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2015.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2014] [Revised: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Mann SL, Selby EA, Bates ME, Contrada RJ. Integrating affective and cognitive correlates of heart rate variability: A structural equation modeling approach. Int J Psychophysiol 2015; 98:76-86. [PMID: 26168884 PMCID: PMC4980075 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2015] [Revised: 06/09/2015] [Accepted: 07/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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High frequency heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of neurocardiac communication thought to reflect predominantly parasympathetic cardiac regulation. Low HRV has been associated empirically with clinical and subclinical levels of anxiety and depression and, more recently, high levels of HRV have been associated with better performance on some measures of executive functioning (EF). These findings have offered support for theories proposing HRV as an index measure of a broad, self-regulatory capacity underlying aspects of emotion regulation and executive control. This study sought to test that proposition by using a structural equation modeling approach to examine the relationships of HRV to negative affect (NA) and EF in a large sample of U.S. adults ages 30s-80s. HRV was modeled as a predictor of an NA factor (self-reported trait anxiety and depression symptoms) and an EF factor (performance on three neuropsychological tests tapping facets of executive abilities). Alternative models also were tested to determine the utility of HRV for predicting NA and EF, with and without statistical control of demographic and health-related covariates. In the initial structural model, HRV showed a significant positive relationship to EF and a nonsignificant relationship to NA. In a covariate-adjusted model, HRV's associations with both constructs were nonsignificant. Age emerged as the only significant predictor of NA and EF in the final model, showing inverse relationships to both. Findings may reflect population and methodological differences from prior research; they also suggest refinements to the interpretations of earlier findings and theoretical claims regarding HRV.
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- Sarah L Mann
- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Tillett Hall, Livingston Campus, 53 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8040, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Tillett Hall, Livingston Campus, 53 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8040, USA.
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- Center of Alcohol Studies, Smithers Hall, Busch Campus, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001, USA; Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Tillett Hall, Livingston Campus, 53 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8040, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Tillett Hall, Livingston Campus, 53 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8040, USA.
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Dermody SS, Wright AGC, Cheong J, Miller KG, Muldoon MF, Flory JD, Gianaros PJ, Marsland AL, Manuck SB. Personality Correlates of Midlife Cardiometabolic Risk: The Explanatory Role of Higher-Order Factors of the Five-Factor Model. J Pers 2015; 84:765-776. [PMID: 26249259 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Varying associations are reported between Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits and cardiovascular disease risk. Here, we further examine dispositional correlates of cardiometabolic risk within a hierarchical model of personality that proposes higher-order traits of Stability (shared variance of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, inverse Neuroticism) and Plasticity (Extraversion, Openness), and we test hypothesized mediation via biological and behavioral factors. In an observational study of 856 community volunteers aged 30-54 years (46% male, 86% Caucasian), latent variable FFM traits (using multiple-informant reports) and aggregated cardiometabolic risk (indicators: insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, blood pressure, adiposity) were estimated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The cardiometabolic factor was regressed on each personality factor or higher-order trait. Cross-sectional indirect effects via systemic inflammation, cardiac autonomic control, and physical activity were tested. CFA models confirmed the Stability "meta-trait," but not Plasticity. Lower Stability was associated with heightened cardiometabolic risk. This association was accounted for by inflammation, autonomic function, and physical activity. Among FFM traits, only Openness was associated with risk over and above Stability, and, unlike Stability, this relationship was unexplained by the intervening variables. A Stability meta-trait covaries with midlife cardiometabolic risk, and this association is accounted for by three candidate biological and behavioral factors.
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Freed S, D'Andrea W. Autonomic Arousal and Emotion in Victims of Interpersonal Violence: Shame Proneness But Not Anxiety Predicts Vagal Tone. J Trauma Dissociation 2015; 16:367-83. [PMID: 25894989 PMCID: PMC4499010 DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2015.1004771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The redefinition of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, has highlighted a range of posttraumatic affects beyond fear and anxiety. For survivors of interpersonal violence, shame has been shown to be an important contributor of self-reported symptomatology. Although biological models of PTSD emphasize physiological arousal secondary to fear and anxiety, evidence suggests that shame might be related to increased arousal as well. This study tested the contributions of anxiety, fear, and shame to autonomic arousal in a sample of female victims (N = 27) of interpersonal violence with PTSD. Shame proneness was the only significant correlate of autonomic arousal during a trauma reminder paradigm. These findings indicate that shame corresponds to important indicators of changes to the autonomic nervous system that have previously been assumed to be fear related.
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- Steven Freed
- a The New School for Social Research , New York , New York , USA
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Gujral S, Manuck SB, Ferrell RE, Flory JD, Erickson KI. The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism does not moderate the effect of self-reported physical activity on depressive symptoms in midlife. Psychiatry Res 2014; 218:93-7. [PMID: 24745471 PMCID: PMC4059542 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2013] [Revised: 03/05/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met single nucleotide polymorphism may be associated with clinical and subsyndromal depression, but physical activity improves mood and increases BDNF expression. The aim of the study was to examine whether the BDNF polymorphism moderates an effect of physical activity on depressive symptoms. BDNF genotype, physical activity measured by the Paffenbarger Questionnaire, and depressive symptoms using the Center for Epidemiology Depression Scale (CES-D) were collected on 1072 participants (mean age=44). Multiple linear regression was used to examine the association between BDNF genotype, physical activity, and depressive symptoms. After adjusting for family income, age, and education, depressive symptoms were higher in Met carriers compared to Val homozygotes (p=0.03), but this was only significant in men. Physical activity was associated with fewer depressive symptoms, but only in women (p=0.01). BDNF genotype did not moderate the effect of physical activity on depressive symptoms (p=0.94). In midlife, the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism neither attenuates nor magnifies the effect of physical activity on depressive symptoms.
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- Swathi Gujral
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA,Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA,Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA,Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA,Corresponding Author: Kirk I. Erickson, PhD, 3107 Sennott Square, 210 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, , Phone: 412-624-4533, Fax: 412-624-4428
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Analysis of heart rate variability during auditory stimulation periods in patients with schizophrenia. J Clin Monit Comput 2014; 29:153-62. [DOI: 10.1007/s10877-014-9580-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Fairclough SH, van der Zwaag M, Spiridon E, Westerink J. Effects of mood induction via music on cardiovascular measures of negative emotion during simulated driving. Physiol Behav 2014; 129:173-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.02.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Revised: 01/28/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Moon E, Lee SH, Kim DH, Hwang B. Comparative Study of Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or Major Depressive Disorder. CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE 2013; 11:137-43. [PMID: 24465250 PMCID: PMC3897762 DOI: 10.9758/cpn.2013.11.3.137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2013] [Revised: 05/27/2013] [Accepted: 06/10/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Objective Heart rate variability (HRV) changes as a function of psychiatric illness. This study aimed to evaluate HRV among patients with various psychiatric disorders. Methods The present study recruited patients with schizophrenia (n=35), bipolar disorder (n=41), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD; n=34), or major depressive disorder (n=34) as well as healthy controls (n=27). The time-domain analysis (the standard deviation of all RR intervals [SDNN] and the square root of the mean squared differences of successive normal sinus intervals [RMSSD]), the frequency-domain analysis (very low frequency, low frequency [LF], high frequency [HF], and total power [TP]), and a non-linear complexity measure the approximate entropy were computed. Results SDNN and HF were significantly reduced in patients with schizophrenia compared with healthy controls. SDNN, RMSSD, TP, LF, and HF were significantly reduced in bipolar patients compared with healthy controls. HF was significantly reduced in PTSD patients compared with healthy controls. Conclusion Our findings indicate that HRV is not sufficiently powerful to discriminate among various psychiatric illnesses. However, our results suggest that HRV, particularly HF, could be used as a tool for discriminating between psychiatric patients and healthy controls.
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- Eunok Moon
- Clinical Emotion and Cognition Research Laboratory, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea
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- Clinical Emotion and Cognition Research Laboratory, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea. ; Department of Psychiatry, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea
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Wilson RS, Boyle PA, Levine SR, Yu L, Hoganson GM, Buchman AS, Schneider JA, Bennett DA. Harm avoidance and cerebral infarction. Neuropsychology 2013; 28:305-11. [PMID: 24364391 DOI: 10.1037/neu0000022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Harm avoidance, a trait indicative of behavioral inhibition, is associated with disability and dementia in old age, but the basis of these associations is uncertain. We test the hypothesis that higher level of harm avoidance is associated with increased likelihood of cerebral infarction. METHOD Older persons without dementia completed a standard measure of harm avoidance. During a mean of 3.5 years of follow-up, 257 (of 1,082) individuals died of whom 206 (80%) underwent brain autopsy. The number of chronic cerebral infarcts (microscopic plus gross; expressed as 0, 1, or >1) was assessed on neuropathologic examination, completed in 192 individuals at the time of analyses. RESULTS On postmortem examination, chronic cerebral infarcts were found in 89 (42 with 1, 47 with >1). Higher harm avoidance was associated with higher likelihood of infarcts (odds ratio = 1.083, 95% confidence interval = 1.040-1.128). A moderately high level of the trait (score = 17, 75th percentile) was associated with a 2.4-fold increase in the likelihood of infarction compared with a moderately low level of the trait (score = 6, 25th percentile). These associations persisted in models that controlled for other cardiovascular risk factors. CONCLUSION Higher level of the harm avoidance trait may be a risk factor for cerebral infarction.
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
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Huang WL, Chang LR, Kuo TBJ, Lin YH, Chen YZ, Yang CCH. Gender differences in personality and heart-rate variability. Psychiatry Res 2013; 209:652-7. [PMID: 23499230 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2012] [Revised: 01/25/2013] [Accepted: 01/30/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Both personality traits and autonomic functioning show as gender differences, but their relationship is not well understood. Medically unexplained symptoms are related to personality features and can be assessed by autonomic measurement. The patterns are hypothesised to identify gender differences. We recruited 30 male and 30 female healthy volunteers. All participants completed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) and heart-rate variability (HRV) measurement. Correlation analysis was performed to identify the relationships between TPQ scores and HRV parameters. For the subjects as a whole, the subdimension harm avoidance 4 (HA4, fatigability and asthenia) was found to be negatively correlated with low-frequency (LF) power, high-frequency (HF) power and total power (TP) of HRV. Novelty seeking 1 (NS1, exploratory excitability) was found to be positively correlated with LF power and TP. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that the interactions exploratory excitability x gender and fatigability x gender are predictors of LF and HF power, respectively. Our result supports the hypothesis that personality features such as exploratory excitability and fatigability are associated with autonomic functioning and that gender is a moderator in these relationships.
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- Wei-Lieh Huang
- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yunlin, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hoogwegt MT, Pedersen SS, Theuns DAMJ, Kupper N. Relation between emotional distress and heart rate variability in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Psychophysiology 2013; 51:187-96. [PMID: 24423136 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2013] [Accepted: 09/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We investigated the relationship between Type D personality, depression, and anxiety, and heart rate variability (HRV) in 64 patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). HRV was obtained via 24-h Holter monitoring, and 24-h, 30-min daytime rest and 30-min nighttime sleep HRV were analyzed. In adjusted analyses, significant associations (standard deviation of normal-to-normal [NN] intervals [SDNN]: p = .043; standard deviation of NN intervals over 5-min periods [SDANN]: p = .010) and a trend (HRV triangular index: p = .09) were found for Type D personality, and trends were found for depression (lower RMSSD: p = .10; lower pNN50: p = .09). During daytime rest, similar results were found for anxiety and depression. During sleep, only noteworthy adjusted associations were found for depression (lower root mean square of successive differences in NN intervals [RMSSD]: p = .06; lower pNN50: p = .043). A Benjamini-Hochberg correction for multiple testing led to reduction of the number of significant relationships, but there was still support for lower autonomic control patients with Type D personality and depression. Future research with larger sample sizes is warranted.
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- Madelein T Hoogwegt
- CoRPS-Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic Diseases, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Kim J, Nakamura T, Kikuchi H, Sasaki T, Yamamoto Y. Co-variation of depressive mood and locomotor dynamics evaluated by ecological momentary assessment in healthy humans. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74979. [PMID: 24058642 PMCID: PMC3773004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Computerized ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is widely accepted as a “gold standard” method for capturing momentary symptoms repeatedly experienced in daily life. Although many studies have addressed the within-individual temporal variations in momentary symptoms compared with simultaneously measured external criteria, their concurrent associations, specifically with continuous physiological measures, have not been rigorously examined. Therefore, in the present study, we first examined the variations in momentary symptoms by validating the associations among self-reported symptoms measured simultaneously (depressive mood, anxious mood, and fatigue) and then investigated covariant properties between the symptoms (especially, depressive mood) and local statistics of locomotor activity as the external objective criteria obtained continuously. Healthy subjects (N = 85) from three different populations (adolescents, undergraduates, and office workers) wore a watch-type computer device equipped with EMA software for recording the momentary symptoms experienced by the subjects. Locomotor activity data were also continuously obtained by using an actigraph built into the device. Multilevel modeling analysis confirmed convergent associations by showing positive correlations among momentary symptoms. The increased intermittency of locomotor activity, characterized by a combination of reduced activity with occasional bursts, appeared concurrently with the worsening of depressive mood. Further, this association remained statistically unchanged across groups regardless of group differences in age, lifestyle, and occupation. These results indicate that the temporal variations in the momentary symptoms are not random but reflect the underlying changes in psychophysiological variables in daily life. In addition, our findings on the concurrent changes in depressive mood and locomotor activity may contribute to the continuous estimation of changes in depressive mood and early detection of depressive disorders.
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- Jinhyuk Kim
- Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Erickson KI, Banducci SE, Weinstein AM, Macdonald AW, Ferrell RE, Halder I, Flory JD, Manuck SB. The brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism moderates an effect of physical activity on working memory performance. Psychol Sci 2013; 24:1770-9. [PMID: 23907543 DOI: 10.1177/0956797613480367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Physical activity enhances cognitive performance, yet individual variability in its effectiveness limits its widespread therapeutic application. Genetic differences might be one source of this variation. For example, carriers of the methionine-specifying (Met) allele of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism have reduced secretion of BDNF and poorer memory, yet physical activity increases BDNF levels. To determine whether the BDNF polymorphism moderated an association of physical activity with cognitive functioning among 1,032 midlife volunteers (mean age = 44.59 years), we evaluated participants' performance on a battery of tests assessing memory, learning, and executive processes, and evaluated their physical activity with the Paffenbarger Physical Activity Questionnaire. BDNF genotype interacted robustly with physical activity to affect working memory, but not other areas of cognitive functioning. In particular, greater levels of physical activity offset a deleterious effect of the Met allele on working memory performance. These findings suggest that physical activity can modulate domain-specific genetic (BDNF) effects on cognition.
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of anxiety on the prognosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients of Chinese Han ethnicity and to explore the correlation between anxiety and the severity of coronary atherosclerosis. METHODS Between June 2007 and May 2009, 1007 hospitalized patients with CAD diagnosed by coronary angiography were recruited. The anxiety symptoms were investigated within 2 days after coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention, using the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale. The severity of coronary atherosclerosis was assessed using the modified Gensini score. One and a half years after discharge, the participants were evaluated at the outpatient clinic or by telephone. The primary outcome was the composite of all-cause death and nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI). RESULTS A total of 917 (91.1%) patients were evaluated during a mean follow-up period of 17 months. Thirty-five deaths (26 of cardiovascular and 9 of other causes) and 5 nonfatal MIs occurred. The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale score assessed during hospitalization was significantly and independently associated with the Gensini score (β = 1.35, p < .001). Adjusted Cox proportional hazards models showed that anxiety symptoms predicted all-cause death and nonfatal MI (adjusted hazard ratio = 2.43, 95% confidence interval = 1.24-4.75, p = .009). CONCLUSIONS Anxiety was independently associated with the severity of coronary atherosclerosis and predicted worse outcome in patients with CAD of Chinese Han ethnicity.
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